Can Thompson's late effort pay off?

Gannett News Service ^ | December 23, 2007 | Williams Theobald

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Even his harshest critics would likely concede that Fred Thompson had a good campaign swing through Iowa this week.

But as he headed home to Virginia on Saturday for a three-day Christmas break before returning to Iowa for the second half of his Iowa bus tour, the question that this last-minute effort began with still stands.

[Soliton]

Actually, Fred is more like the homeschooled kid who ends up with a doctorate by the age of 20. He is simply innately smarter, wiser, and more astute.

We'll see. If he doesn't get the nomination he should ask for a foreign relations post from the new administration. If he pouts and goes back to Hollywood, we'll know he wasn't serious about public service.

[Clara Lou]

If he pouts and goes back to Hollywood, we'll know he wasn't serious about public service.
LOL! Gasbag!

[2nd amendment mama]

it is Fred Thompson who comes out the same then as he is now. Always conservative, no flip-flops, no backtracking on what he has said previously.

Absolutely - which is why I have personally endorsed Fred and support him.

[The Pack Knight]

You’d think Derek Anderson had never run a two-minute drill in his life.

[John Valentine]

A POTUS Candidate should have proven EXECUTIVE experience.

I beg to differ.

A POTUS candidate should be a proven leader. Period.

He can hire all the executives he needs.

[John Valentine]

I do not beleive that Fred has ever said that he is against these amendments, only that he is not “for” them. That is, he isn’t going to waste time chasing these particular rainbows’ ends.

I do not believe that these are “you’re either with us or agin’ us” type situations.

[wardaddy]

The cross ad did not creep me out.

I think a Christian politician is well suited to stand beside his Christianity.

Huckabee broke weak when he backed down from it.

Romney is questioned for unusual Mormon creed and the mere questioning is called bigotry.

Now Paul has claimed Lincoln went beyond the Constitution....lol....duh

This has become a really intersting race....it’s starting to mimic all the intra-fraternal warfare we have here 24/7

[xsmommy]

clara lou, on this christmas eve, let me say that i ALWAYS get a huge kick out of your posts!! LOL! Merry Christmas!

[wardaddy]

You will find lots of self-proclaimed Christians here, but true devotion scares them

Nail on head Soliton....but sadly, I only really like Huckster's abortion stance mostly.

this race shows how fractured we are to right of center....amazing

[wardaddy]

I like Deep South Conservatives....there are few and they along with some scattered around the country are about all that’s left really.

course...I am one.

in the end, we are all “mostly” a product of what we are and where we are from

[no dems]

...aside from abortion and guns, he's (Huckabee's) just as far left as Hillary and Obama.

TRUE!! And, many people don't know that for years there has been a split between the Moderate (Liberal) and Conservative Southern Baptists. Huckabee is a known leader amongst the "flaming" Moderates (Liberals) in the SBC.

[wardaddy]

Well, then you have missed it Sage. I don’t have the time to go pull all the “another hick from Arkansas stuff”

Bush’s evangelical bent was quite the conversation before his election.

Carter’s even was since he too was considered Evangelical in 1976....I have tried to tell folks here that Evangelical does not infer instant Conservatism.

Huckabee is an ex-preacher, if an ex-priest ran I’m sure it would be fine....wasn’t John Danforth an ex-priest. ....does anyone care about that. Giuliani is Roman Catholic and no one says a peep but some guy (whom I don’t support for other reasons) comes along as a Southern Evangelical and the long knives come out that he’s too religious and he’s bigoted for even questioning Romney’s Mormonism....like no one can question peculiar Mormon creed....even if now deemed archaic.

I guess Southern Episcopalian support for slavery and Catholic Inquisition are now hands off too?

I think many here.... Catholic posters (and obviously Mormon) don’t like true believer Protestants for very old reasons.....and they know true believer Prods dispute their creed too.

The funny thing though is that Huckster is not a Fundamentalist or Charismatic...lol....now that would really get some around here’s heads turning.

in the end though....except for his abortion stances I don’t much care for Huckster at all but I think it’s amazing how someone who wears his Christianity on his sleeve gets folks going.

I think what scares milquetoast Christians the most about Fundamentalists and Charismatics most is that they know most of them actually believe. You cannot say that about most other Christian sects at all.....most are lapsed. Were they not lapsed, we would live in a very conservative nation easily.

Were Huckster a Fundie, he’d probably be a more appealing candidate to me.

[Soliton]

"A POTUS candidate should be a proven leader."

Senators vote, they don't lead people. To be a proven leader , you have to have directed people, given orders. You have to have been an executive.to have done these things.

[sageb1]

“Giuliani is Roman Catholic and no one says a peep “

You missed that discussion. The same discussion that occurred with Kerry and his supposed Catholicism. You’ll notice there aren’t too many Giuliani supporters left at FR. I wrote a couple of days ago that I actually trust Giuliani more than Huckabee because Rudy’s negatives are known and Huckabee’s are murky. But if it came down to the defense of our country, it would be Rudy over Huck for me. The soldier maintains our security so that we can keep our religious freedom. The “Christian Soldier” has a slightly different job description.

[Soliton]

this race shows how fractured we are to right of center....amazing

I'm not "for" Huck. It's just obvious to me that casual Christians are afraid of him because they think he might actually belive his faith to the point of living it at home and at work. How else do you explain all of the hyperventilating over his Christmas ad. A cross in a Christmas ad is a "subliminal message" in an ad explicitly about Christ and Christmas.

[sageb1]

There are many with leadership abilities who have not been executives.

[Clara Lou]

Well...I hope that’s a good thing—

Merry Christmas to you, too.

[Soliton]

There are many with leadership abilities who have not been executives

Good. Let them demonstrate it something less than the most important job in the world. I am sure I have football coaching ability, but the Patriots probably won't hire me unless I have done it well for years at a very high level.

[sageb1]

We all live our faith. We just don’t make a huge deal out of verbally inserting it in secular affairs. Especially when it comes down to dealing with secular nations. This is something Islamic countries do.

[sruleoflaw]

The terms should be discarded, but as a Christian and a conservative, I AM SO TURNED OFF BY HUCKABEE. I hope you’ve seen the pro-life candidate TOOK A $35,000 donation from a company that is the largest destroyer of embryoes.